Megatron's Log
Decepticon Commander
Triple Encryption
For vorns, my Elite Trine has been nothing but trouble. They are indeed my best flyers, but more and more, they are becoming detrimental to the cause. Starscream, although brilliant, almost seems to use his intelligence against me, questioning my decisions, countermanding orders and generally causing chaos in the ranks. I am not blind; I know there are those that are more loyal to him than to me. I cannot correct that at the time, not unless I want a minor mutiny and lost soldiers on my hands. I need every mech I can get at the moment to break this stalemate. I also can see the how often his screw ups coincide with missions that should not have failed. Not only do these missions fail, it costs us valuable energon every time, and the Autobots always seem to come out of the fight better than they went in. Still, I have no proof that he is deliberately sabotaging us; if that is the case then he is doing a remarkable job of covering his tracks. After so many vorns of letting him get away with things, it would look strange if I were to destroy him now, though I would dearly love to some orns. Lord though I may be, it would cause dissension in the ranks if I were to kill him without absolute proof of betrayal. And I am not entirely certain that that is what this is.
Thundercracker on the other hand is a dead mech walking. The only reason he still lives is because of his trine. If it would not loose me Skywarp's and Starscream's loyalty, tenuous though the latter's might be, I would have scrapped him vorns ago. He is easily the second best flyer in my ranks, but he wears his doubts like a coat of armor. Anyone can see that he does not believe in the Decepticons, and is only here because of his trine. I will not have Autobot sympathizers in my army; I have no use for such a disgusting weakness. Still, if I kill him, Starscream will turn on me, but this time he'll have Skywarp's backing, and likely that of the coneheads. I know the flyers are loyal to each other first, and should I kill one of them, even if the others do not like him, it will still insult them all. So he lives. For now.
Fortunately, one of the three is completely loyal, but I suspect that is largely due to the fact that he does not have the intelligence to do otherwise. He cannot be subtle to save his life, so I am safe from sneak attacks, and he is not smart enough to hide his emotions (neither is Thundercracker, but I digress) so I know he is loyal. He pranks and general idiocy are annoying, but so long as one of them is loyal then I have leverage over the Trine. Not that I don't have leverage anyway. All three of them know what would happen to their precious youngling if they get too far out of line.
It amuses me that that little Autobot Mirage came from my seekers. I know that he has no idea who created him. It is amusing to imagine his reaction, and how his anger and disgust would break my trine. Hmm, that is an idea. I cannot kill them for a number of reasons, but perhaps it is time to show them just how I gained control of them in the first place. Mirage could be the perfect tool to ensure their absolute loyalty. I can make him a permanent guest of the Decepticons, one who the seekers can visit when they please me, as well as be the one to take their punishment for when they fail. The three of them would never want harm to come to their darling little sparkling, after all. And the Autobrat's hatred for the trine, the loathing that will fill his optics every time they visit him will only serve to break them further. Yes, I do believe it's time to fix their troublesome behavior. It's been such a long time since we've entertained a guest. Preparations must be made.
End log.